Marooned on ride.

"Simon Mason" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Last night on a 30 mile ride, I decided to visit my favourite local place, this remote spot where
no one walks to, as it's a mile walk to a dead end and then back again, so it provides a great
place for a bit of solitude on

a

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summer's evening watching the shipping on the Humber and the wading birds

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As it was starting to get dark, I headed back, only to find the locks

gates

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open here. The Zeebrugge ferry had left the docks and they decided to

leave

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the flaming gates open, even though it's a right of way.

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Not wanting to trespass on the dock and use the other set of gates, I had

to

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wait until some speck on the horizon turned up and enter the lock, which left me there for over an
hour. The infuriating thing was, the Rotterdam ferry was barely 100 metres away in the river and I
could smell all the gourmet food wafting across from the restaurants

(Mr Pedantic says the wind was easterly last night and you were east of

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ferry, so you couldn't have smelt it.) Yeah well, I could hear the

cutlery.

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Simon Mason Anlaby East Yorkshire. 53°44'N 0°26'W simonmason.karoo.netsimonmason.karoo.netOpen ↗

you should be careful hanging around the docks late at night 😉